Posted by: tom.guerry (tom.guerry@kp.org) on Fri Sep 3 07:27:39 2010

Jack-

Thanks for a great 10+ years and a number of breakthrough concepts that have helped
countless ball players !

I like to think of "shoulders" as a separate anatomic unit from the "torso". While the
shoulder anatomy is complicated, it can be somewhat simplified by focussing on what
the 2 scaps do.

For the necessary early batspeed and quickness and adjustability, I would say the
shoulders should neither actively turn nor remain static, instead they should tilt in a
more vertical plane than the hips with the primary activity of enhancing handle torque.

this keeps the shoulders in a little and allows a better directed and timed
stretch/unstretch of the torso which works its way quickly to the bathead during
unloading through connected shoulders and arms controlled by how the bathead is
being torqued/fired out at the handle.